Hey mate, been following you on youtube for quite some time now, really enjoy the way you play. Do you stream? Is there any way you could do more tutorial videos to show how exactly you play, game plan tactics, how to be patient but still active on the ball, etc? You are very patient and always know what to do in every situation, you never panic on the ball, always smooth and calm, really enjoy watching your videos.
Would really appreciate a reply.
Cheers, keep up the great content!
Hey thanks for the kind words. I dunno what helps, I'm learning the new game too. I don't write much these days, coz a lot of stuff has always been in the game, things we've known about and we've all written about.
I guess everything you know helps. It helps to know the limitations of what you can/cannot do (in the game). It also helps to know what you can/cannot do in reality (real football). That's probably the 2 most important things.
When a new game is released, the first thing I usually do is just sit down with it and try stuff. Feel the touch, feel the weight, feel the body strength of players, feel how close I can play with defender close to me, feel how quickly I can turn, feel how much body contact pressure I can hold my stance against..
..feel the pass power, feel how far or close you can make each pass (in relationship to your target receiver), which means to feel the gradation of your passes (possible gradations, how far away from the receiver before it becomes a complete lose ball), feel the grass and friction and how it slows down the ball on the field..
..feel the defensive tracking, feel the elasticity of the tracking, feel the weight of defender, feel what the limit is for you to lean your body/weight too far to one side (thus getting wrong-footed when the ball carrier chooses the opposite side to beat you), feel the limit of defensive tracking.
In really vague terms, this is what you want to do. You want to know what you can do and can't do, that's where it should always begin, because that's how you develop a toolkit, and how you look at spaces on the field. And then you try to blend it with what you understand about real football, and use your ideas.
I'm really against playing in a way that gravitates towards using the same few tools always. A lot of players, when they find something that works for them, they develop a reliance on it, and soon, it becomes an over-reliance (repetitive, sometimes abuse). For example, this could be the one type of finishing shot they always want to take, or the one type of pass they always want to make, or one type of attacking pattern they want to make. They'll do it again and again until it works (usually, do the same thing enough of times, and something will leak). It's better to be fluid I think. There's always an answer for different situations. You want concise solutions for different situations. I try, but I don't always have the best solution. I've also played with a few guys who seem to see through the whole game, like they see things that when given the same situations, I wouldn't know there's an opportunity there. I usually respect guys who are extremely fluid on the field (I play in 10v10 full manual these days, when someone stands out, you can definitely spot it. They play extremely freeform). And those who have a limited view of what they can/cannot do, usually has a lot of repetitions (of failed actions). Just something I noticed, playing on a field with 20 human players in team play mode.
Anyway, here's a few posts that may help:
- something about playing slow
https://www.evo-web.co.uk/threads/p...discussion-thread.77510/page-339#post-3258768
- something about defending with no X and [] (totally free, manual defending)
- a giant post from PES14 about dribbling/ball holding (this post is probably a good place to start. It was written for an Italian manual subforum, the mod there asked to write it, there's some stuff about the
RIGHT STICK USAGE in the often talked about PES14...a lot of us miss the progressiveness of that year's game)
https://www.pesteam.it/forum/threads/dubbi-e-considerazioni.11761/page-2#post-467860
There's a lot of other stuff.
Tactics-wise, I don't do a lot anymore. I also believe you have to let your team play. Go out there and use the default tactics, let the team play, think of yourself as just 1 of 11 players on your team. Try to see how they move, facilitate passes to them, instead of enforcing
how you want to play. You know, take actions/passing choices that match their movement, instead of brute forcing your style over it. Adapt to them. Coz I think every team every game plan, there's a way to play it out. It doesn't always have to be how you want to play the game, your way, your style etc.
In summary, I think of it as keeping an open mind for new ideas, flexible style, adaptive etc. Best way to grow.
